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Enjoy this gallery of memes celebrating Facebook and Instagram outages

2021-10-04 00:00:00

The world is temporarily a better place with Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Oculus VR, and Instagram being inaccessible right now. Twitter, unfortunately, is still operating, but at least people are posting some funny memes about it!

The Verge's explanation for why the sites aren't working is as clear as mud:

While it's unclear exactly why the platforms are unreachable for so many people, their DNS records show that, like last week's Slack outage, the problem is apparently DNS (it's always DNS). Cloudflare senior vice president Dane Knecht notes that Facebook's border gateway protocol routes — BGP helps networks pick the best path to deliver internet traffic — have been "withdrawn from the internet."

Those pesky border gateway protocol routes!

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook users right now after there servers came down. #PandoraLeaks #DeleteFacebook pic.twitter.com/7GBGifQZLH — Nick M. M (@NicholusMwai) October 4, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg watching his team fix WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook outage!#instagramdown pic.twitter.com/e0NdakfJIn — Vishal Verma (@VishalVerma_9) October 4, 2021
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